Cassandra's POVI clenched my fist and sighed."I'll be your girlfriend" I say and the Landon's face was equivalent to what would have been on my face if Jack's mom had given me a proper meal for dinner. How did I get here? Let's take a few minutes to recap. It's been a week since I turned Landon down at the breakfast table. Every day ever since then I found a bouquet of pink roses in my locker everytime I opened it and I opened my locker twice a day, once in the morning to get books out and at the end of the school day to out books back in. So yeah about a total of 14 roses now if not more. At first I threw them away but then I started giving them to teachers and staff and pretty soon I was in good terms with a few more of my teachers.I didn't know how much he out down or how he convinced my sparing instructor, gym instructor boxing and wrestling instructors and even the school coach to let me be his partner but in every class I had to use my fists and not my pen he was my partner
Alder's POVA week later I was to meet the selected mate Savannah West and I was pumped as hell. Notice the sarcasm, yeah?.Well I shifted all the plans that I could to tha day and so I was suddenly too busy to meet her. This act becomes a routine because suddenly I'm too busy on the day I'm supposed to meet her and on my third attempt to shake her off I don't succeed.I sign just one more paper and drop the pen rubbing my eyes and stretching still in my seat.I think about how it's been a week since the dreams with Cassie stopped. No warnings, nothing. I just stopped dreaming about her in total and no matter how much I thought about her before sleeping I never dreamt about her. Either I don't dream at all or I dream and it's not about her. A knock sounds on the door and I call out"come in" without asking"who is it" and immediately I regret my slip. A woman dressed in a sort skimpy gown, make up that is so heavy I'm sure her face is feeling tired and heels so high it's a wonder
Cassandra's POVI've forgotten about Alder and I don't even feel guilty. It's partly not my fault because the dreams stopped. They stopped abruptly and the connection died and suddenly all I can think of is "Maybe my finding my wolf and beginning to change was jus a coincidence"."Maybe it was my heart not letting go and still holding in to the fact that I once had a mate". I told mom about this and she said maybe the emergence of my wolf was the one who cut the connection. It's all heresy anyway because there's nothing set in stone. Another reason I don't care is because Landon has been making me happy and although I'm not in love with him yet, it's way too early for that, but I can say I like him for sure. He has been nothing short of sweet and romantic and I'm swooning. We eat together, train together and even bee attending class together. He has other friends but he's all I have got and we talked about it the other day. The fact I have been unable to open up to any female is
Cassandra's POV I wake up to Landon looking rumpled and holding my hand as he slept with his head on my bed. My heart fluttered from his gentlemanliness and I looked around. I see Georgiana by the window looking outside as students walked the hallway. Each minding their business and hurrying to their classes."I was 15 and so innocent when I was chosen" she says and I know she knew the minute I woke up. Her voice cracked a little and I knew if she turned back to look at me she'd cry and end up not finishing her story. "You'll be Luna, they said. You'll be honoured they told me. You just have to be good, better than everyone to fit into that role. So I did all I could in being the best. I trained super hard, endured gruesome trainings , didn't go to parties or to clubs because I wanted to keep a clean record. I couldn't even have birthday parties of my own. it was a no party rule so in case something bad happened there was nothing like it happened at Georgiana's party People never
Alder's POVI watch her grab two ramen bowls , 2 cups of ice and two sachets of juice . She pays the cashier and heads my way. "Ramen?" I ask and she nods. "Is this shit healthy?" I ask and she gasps as if I had committed the greatest crime. "Well I don't know but you shouldn't say that out loud, someone might hear" she says as she puts enough water for two people in the microwave. "If someone hears me what will happen?" I asks and she zips her lips and throws away the key. "You won't hear it from me" she says and laughs. I study her and she blushes under my gaze before turning. "Is it just me or your in a good mood?" I ask her and she nods smiling wider. "I had a presentation today and I was scared so much I started shaking in my pants, then my boss was able to cam me down. But that wasn't my highlight of the day" she says and I lean it to hear the final part. She smiles and takes the water from the microwave. I catch myself leaning in like a fool . She quietly goea throug
Alder's POVThe process was quite fast and easy. Soon Thelma has her own name, and social security number. She has said thank you so much I'm tired of hearing thank you and might punch the next person that says it. I sit with my mother , father and her at the dinner table and my mother has such a happy look on her face.Thelma keeps helping her do stuff and it's busy in the kitchen, noise of laughter resounds in the kitchen and my ears begin to ring.Dad winks at me ,grabs two bottles of beer and walk out into the backyard. I take that as the cue to follow him. We get into the backyard and sit on the swings , he passes one of the beer bottles to me and takes a sip."She looks like good wife and mother material" he says and I look to the kitchen window seeing Thelma laugh with my mother. I sigh and take a sip of the beer. Truth is I can't argue. "Why do you keep sighing?" he asks me taking more of his beer and making me look like this the first beer I'll ever drink. "You might w
Cassandra's POVIt's been a week since I got back home for the summer break and I can't help but be glad I came home. It feels so nice to have a home to come back to. My parents are here and my loved ones are happy to have me back.I walk to the kitchen and pause outside the door the minute I hear my name on whispers. I walk back a few steps immediately to avoid getting caught, then use my barely there werewolf powers to listen in. "It's her birthday on Wednesday, do you think she knows. ?" my mom asks someone I recognize by voice when they reply. "Why would you say she doesn't know her birthday is on Wednesday, it's absurd" my dad replies."She's nonchalant and is not excited at all. She'll be 22, it's something to be excited about, all these past years that she's been with us, anytime it's her birthday it's just like any other day, and I keep thinking how long can she keep this up." my mother sounds genuinely worried and I'm perplexed. Am I doing it intentionally? No because my
Cassandra's POVI opened my tired eyes to the knock on my door and I kept groaning. Normally I would have left the door open but Mother kept barging in and I kept waking up with my sleep disturbed. I had grocery bags for eye bags and I aged 10 more years in that 2 days.I was ready to put all this birthday fiasco behind me. I was so used to spending my birthdays in the dark smelly basement. I turned the key in it's hole and opened the door to see my best friend Elia and I smiled in relief."Finally you're here" I said and hugged her like it's been 10 years we've seen each other. "You have really missed me " she said and I breathed in her clean scent. She pulled back and accessed my face. "You look so tired bestie." "This the first hectic birthday I've ever had and it's making me freak out. Of course I'm tired." I whisper and she hugs me again. "Everything will be fine baby girl" she says and I nodded. We took a minute to sit on the bed and catch up which actually me stalling and
EL'S POVCassandra had been quite helpful to me which I couldn't be more grateful for. But the nightmares kept on coming causing a lot of issues for me. Now I'd thought my parents had been killed unjustly but could it be that there was more behind the story than I thought? Why was I seeing my parents giving souls to unknown figures? Why did it seem like they were ready to sell themselves away without even considering the consequences? My eyes widened, these souls were two, and I could tell mine was excluded. Why would they give out the soul of their children selling them off to ancient figures. They knew they price they were going to pay for it and that was what they paid for, and they paid with their lives. Now my siblings were missing. I just knew, I knew that I could find them.. In the darkness of the night and the isolated land of my dream, I unraveled the twisted threads of my family's enigmatic past. The nightmares haunted my every waking moment, pushing me to dig deeper into t
CASSANDRA'S POVI know that El had been going through a lot lately and it started from that night when she saw the book. And now it seemed as though there was more to what was happening than just the illness that befell her. And then the curse, the dream that she had. I sighed as she explained she'd been seeing so many things these days and I was trying to understand what it was that she was going through. "Seeing things, like what?" I asked."Like that same dream I had. I don't know why I keep having images of you or Julius getting killed. I mean is there something I don't know? Is something after you guys? Are you running away from something? So many things had changed since the day you found this necklace. A lot more changed since the day you found this book."Her voice trembled as she tried to talk about what she saw and I knew that it must have been shocking, I I moved towards her and held her hand, cause I knew I was certainly going to see what happened... then the terrible ima
JULIUS' POV Sabastian revealed himself from behind Alaric and I took a step back while Alaric, sensing him shielded him from me even though he was unfazed. "I see you two are finally enjoined.""What do you want Sabastian?" I asked."Oh, nothing much, just came to remind you of the oath you made. And you know it has consequences." Sabastian said, and I just knew I couldn't get off his grip easily. As Sabastian's words hung in the air, a shiver ran down my spine. I knew exactly what he was referring to - the oath I had made in a moment of desperation, when I thought it was the only way to save someone dear to me. But little did I know then, the grave consequences it would bring.My mind raced, desperately searching for a way out of this predicament. I couldn't let Sabastian have his way. There had to be a solution, a way to break free from his grip and nullify the oath. But it seemed like an impossible task.Alaric, still shielding Sabastian from me, glanced at me with concern in hi
JULIUS'S POV I found myself back in the past, back to when I was discussing with Alaric. His eyes were teary and it seemed as though I was yelling at him to leave me alone and that I didn't love him but Sabastian. The glimpse of these memories kept coming to me and the times when I chased Sabastian and he just made my life a living hell. All these was erased from my memory? Then I saw the part where I kissed Alaric. I was obviously heart broken because Sabastian didn't treat me well. Alaric always stood by me and always called to me. He never once let me go. The tears rushed down from my eyes because of the pain I went through being with Sabastian. In the depths of my mind, memories long buried stirred like whispers carried by the wind. They danced on the fringes of my consciousness, elusive yet relentless. And as the echoes of the past grew louder, I found myself caught in a swirling vortex of emotions.This was a time of love and heartache, a delicate balance between two souls. Sa
JULIUS' POV "There are so many mysteries poppinv out of no where's these days. I'm starting to think which one would we figure out?" Cassandra had heard about the news by me. And she wasn't wrong. There were indeed many mysteries. "Can you remember any instance where you both encountered?" I shook my head at her question. This vampire was new to me in every way. I wasn't even sure whether what he was saying was the truth.I stood at the mirror side, contemplating while Cassandra was pacing the room trying to think of probably what to do."Do you think he holds the mysteries to somethings? Perhaps he knows some truth about a matter. Would you try to find out?" She questioned and I contemplated. I wasn't so sure about that. Cassandra paced the room, her mind filled with questions and possibilities. The mention of encountering mysteries with this vampire sparked her curiosity even further. I could feel what she was feeling, could hear what she was thinking. She couldn't help but wonder
JULIUS' POV I made my way under the tree branches and away from the sun, contemplating about could happen next and how possible I would be able to tackle it. The moon was out now and the weather caused me to breathe, but then I feared for Cassandra and her family. The doubts that suddenly threatened to consume me these days wasn't helping the situation at hand at all. Some times I just wished I would be ordinary, while living an ordinary life, with nobody's intervention into my affairs. Without having to worry every second of the day. I stared at the moon a little to long because without even knowing I'd stepped into another realm. This realm was one of power, magic, fortune, but absolute no peace or remorse from them. The funny thing was, I'd been introduced to something like this before by the moon goddess, and had no idea what it was that she was trying to show me. This camp...magic existed, power existed, fortune existed, but no remorse nor peace. Then something in my mind clicke
CASSANDRA'S POVThe pain shot through my bone, causing me to jerk. And even though Alder was here with me I just couldn't get any relief, the pain and heat was all over even worse than my heat. Alder brought me close to himself and even though I wanted to snap, his scent didn't permit me to, instead it made me calm.As Alder held me close, his strong arms enveloping me, I could feel the tension slowly starting to melt away. His comforting embrace seemed to create a protective barrier around me, shielding me from the unbearable pain that had engulfed my body. His head was buried in my neck and I couldn't help but moan at the feeling of his lips touching it. I pulled him closer, not wanting him to let go, not even for a moment, and that made me wonder if I was really in pain or in heat. I was perplexed but didn't really have the time to think about it because of the profound pain. Alder's presence alone was a soothing balm to my troubled mind. With every breath, his familiar scent, a b
CASSANDRA'S POV I paced the room whilst Cassandra kept staring at me with concern. My thoughts were running wild, mind was still unable to comprehend what was going to happen next. All I knew was that things were beginning to escalate. I was beginning to suspect Sabastian, he was definitely one of those who were after the necklace. I continued to contemplate, because I couldn't predict what could possibly happen next... "Perhaps there's a way around all of these. We can't keep sitting while there's something out there threatening to attack us." Cassandra said. "I was considering something...the vampires are yet to reveal themselves. Do you think there's something fishy about that?" "We all know that there's something tricky with them. They're cunning and wouldn't act upon their intentions unless the time is right." I stated. "Perhaps I can write the story." "No, you can't. I've written it already, so there's no need for that." Her words struck a chord with me. She was right; we
JULIUS' POV I squinted my eyes as I noticed a figure from the distance through the window. Perplexed, I didn't know we were expecting any visitors, or perhaps it was one of the members of the pack? As the figure got closer this house I noticed the familiarity of it and was caught by surprise at the revelation that dawned upon me. Morgana had really outdone herself, bringing the dead back to life, ascertaining that her intentions are being executed. The figure I was seeing was nobody else other than Kathrine, and my eyes automatically shifted to Sabastian's. It was intended, he had called her here, he had given her that permission. And from what I was witnessing, she had a flesh, no longer a shadow standing in the dark. Now she was the person she used to be before she died. And I knew what she wanted, I knew what she was after too. My necklace. I stumbled backwards slightly at the profound feeling of the shock that was about to overwhelm me. I didn't even have the time to focus on Sab